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Thursday 13 March Kiasma lobby
18:00-19:00 Short introductions to Pixelache Lounge exhibition artists and projects
19:00-20:30
Kiasma Lobby Pixelache Lounge exhibition opening Pixelache Lounge exhibition:
• Camera Lucida by Evelina Domnitch & Dmitry Gelfand (RU/NL) • The making of Vihreä Pilvi / Nuage Vert (a project by HeHe ) • Several projects from Kitchen Budapest (HU) • I blog therefore I am by Christer Chytraéus (SE)• Interactive installation prototype by Michel Bussien (SE) • Statistical objects' by Alejandro Tamayo (CO) • Techno Shakti by Karthikeya Acharya (India)• Beepez-le by Daniel Peltz (US)
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Created in collaboration with scientific laboratories in Japan, Germany, Belgium, Russia and United States, the Camera Lucida (lucid or light chamber) installation allows one to directly convert sound waves into light by employing a phenomenon called sonoluminiscence: ultrasound within liquid causes micro-bubbles of gas to implode, as which point they become as hot as the Sun and emit light in the shape of sound waves.
The Camera Lucida by Dmitry Gelfand & Evelina Domnitch (RU/NL) will be exhibited 8-30 March at Kiasma Mediatheque.
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Public Smog is concerned with the atmosphere as a social, political, and
economic formation. Actions to create the park have included purchasing and
withholding emissions from regulated greenhouse gas markets in Southern
California and in the European Union, and an attempt to submit the Earth's
atmosphere for inclusion on the UNESCO World Heritage List. And anyone who wants
to can construct Public Smog at any time, through any activity that creates
it.
In the process of attempting to create the park, the project considers
current atmospheric geopolitics, particularly economic and political efforts to
commodify and control this singular global system through markets, international
law, treaties, and police power."
(Public Smog most recently opened to the public over the European Union
from 2006 to 2007)
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Statistical Objects by Alejandro Tamayo (CO)
Voici en
exclusivite
Beepez-le by Daniel Peltz (US)
"...Through
watching
my host's constant engagement with her phone, I learned of a system
that Cameroonians had invented, to circumvent the expensive foreign
owned cell phone networks, called “beeping.” A beep is a called placed
and hung up after one ring. Through a context sensitive system, I
learned that Cameroonians had developed beeping into a complex language
capable of a range of communications. It was after a walk through the
market, past the church where my host siblings sang in the choir, that
I decided to buy a cell phone for God and to invite people to beep him.
I formed a small collective the S.D.C.D., the Society for Direct
Communication with the Divine. The first members were my host siblings
Veronique, her oldest sister Suzy, Suzy’s boyfriend Patience, a student
at the University of Yaounde I, and his roommate Gerard. They recruited
a couple more of their friends and together we discussed the project. I
said very little except that I wanted us to facilitate a conversation
around the installation of God’s cell phone."
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Techno Shakti by Karthikeya Acharya
This multi layered installation is an attempt to portray the complexity of the transformations taking place in the current Indian society. The installation houses 5 narratives of technology usage in present day India, within a ‘Pandal’. The narratives are from an ethnographic study of Internet cafes, conducted in over 7 Indian cities. A Pandal is a temporary urban diorama which is put up collectively on the streets by people in a neighbourhood celebrating the idea of ‘Shakti’. This usually takes place in the month of September or October during Navratri, a post harvest festivity in India. Shakti as a female form is the manifestation of power, with wealth on her right and knowledge on her left. The comparison here is of Shakti to technology, wealth to market and knowledge to literacy. The 5 narratives portray how technology is affecting the market and literacy in the current Indian context. The ‘Pandal’ in actuality of context of the Indian streets, not just houses the religious deity but also conveys a social message of the current times through the diorama. The ‘Pandal’ structure here at Pixelache has a sheath of imagery from Kolkata and Siliguri taken during Durga Puja in September 2007. The attempt of the installation is also to convey the metaphor of the viewer as a consumer of technology as if it was consumption of faith.
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Interactive installation prototype by Michel
Bussien (SE)
A moving mechanical surface controlled by its environment. Michel Bussien is currently studying at Konstfack in Stockholm, Sweden. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
I blogg therefore I am by Christer Chytraéus
"I measure small electrical signals from a flower. Passing through a software the signals are translated into different words, depending on the frequency of the signal.
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Kitchen Budapest - The AniMobil is an animation software which uses the camera of mobile phones to make stop-motion animation. The result can be saved as an animated gif and uploaded as an avatar or as a simple video and than uploaded to any youtube-like sites.
Kitchen Budapest - Autocut: sound-based video recontextualizer. There are many short videos shot by mobile devices. They usually stay on the hard disk, or be uploaded to a video-sharing portal without any editing. On one hand, this program selects and edits the videos according to a certain music. On the other hand, autoCut can handle the videos in real time, based on the rhythm of live audio input
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http://www.kitchenbudapest.hu/en/node/244 Animata is a real-time animation software for live performance, with the aid of which we can easily create scenes with virtual puppets. This software is designed to create an interactive background for theatre, music and dance performances, and it can also be used for the visual design of promotional screenings. The software can be run on multiple operating systems, like Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and Windows. It can be easily connected to other applications (Max/MSP, Processing, VVVV, etc.) receiving live input from various physical sensors, microphones and cameras for presentations, performances and improvisational events.
Kitchen Budapest - Arbour Light: modular web-connected lighting system http://www.kitchenbudapest.hu/en/node/302 Arbour Light, an intelligent lighting system can reproduce the visual atmosphere of natural phenomena. It recreates the ambient atmosphere rather than a photographic image, hence it extends communication into non intrusive modalities. We are currently working on the Arbour Light website, what we imagine like a sort of web-community. Among others the site will give opportunity to reach an ambient database. It is based on the videos of Arbour Light owners and “phenomena-collectors”. It is also of importance that the pixel are very low cost and prepared for a DIY distribution; folded paper, flatcable, etc.
Kitchen Budapest - Mllamp: robotically enhanced desklamps - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
'Self-Portrait as a Pataphysical Object' by Torsten Lauschmann (UK) 'Self-Portrait as a Pataphysical Object' by Torsten Lauschmann (UK) is a part of N.I.P. - New Interfaces for Performance (UK + NL + PT) |
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